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June 2013

June 02, 2013

The Blessing of Trinity Sunday

I got invited to preach on Trinity Sunday (May 26, 2013) at Redeemer Church of...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

“You Are Opening the Doors to Every Demon” (Barth circa 1935)

Around 1935, Karl Barth developed a style of speaking and writing that cut through a...

May 30, 2013

Karl Barth: The Word of God and Theology

Karl Barth, The Word of God and Theology, trans. Amy Marga (New York: T&T Clark, 2011),...

May 28, 2013

12th Annual G. Campbell Morgan Lectures Online

For twelve years, the Torrey Honors Institute has organized the G. Campbell Morgan Theology Lectures,...

May 24, 2013

Prayer for the Class of 2013

A prayer given at Torrey graduation, May 24, 2013. It includes a little unfootnoted Calvin,...

May 24, 2013

Benediction for LABTS Graduation 2013

The Los Angeles Bible Training School graduated another class of Bible students last week. These...

May 24, 2013

Graduation Prayers

"Write prayers and burn them," advised P.T. Forsyth in The Soul of Prayer. Why write...

April 2013

April 29, 2013

Doubting 101

This week Fred Sanders posted a link to a meditation on Barth and the experience...

April 24, 2013

Divine Education

One of our semesters at Torrey Honors Institute is called On Learning and Knowledge, and...

April 24, 2013

Whither Trinitarian Theology (Holmes pt. 3)

Fred Sanders and Matt Jenson finish their series of posts on Steve Holmes' new Trinity...

April 18, 2013

Heart Religion (Wesley on the Christian Life)

My book Wesley on the Christian Life: The Heart Renewed in Love is due out...

April 16, 2013

Traditional Trinitarianism (Holmes pt. 2)

Matt Jenson and Fred Sanders are discussing the recent book on the doctrine of the...

April 16, 2013

Reminding God of the Brevity of Human Life

I’d like to suggest an alternative to the common understanding of a well-known verse. Verse...

April 14, 2013

Trinitarian Theology for the Church (Review)

The Trinity was forgotten for a period of “centuries of doctrinal tragedy,” until suddenly in the...

April 11, 2013

“The Quintessential Catechizing Doctrine”

The Spring issue of Credo magazine has a great set of articles on the doctrine...

April 08, 2013

A History of the Trinity (Holmes pt. 1)

We had a blast talking through Tom McCall's Forsaken a few months ago and thought we'd...

April 05, 2013

Credo: Trinity Issue

Everybody knows about the magazine called Credo, right? It's a newish (started 2011) quarterly that...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

In the Garden Alone

My church hosted a great event last week, an Easter walk with a multi-station dramatic...

March 20, 2013

What Rob Bells Talks About When He Talks About God

Rob Bell's new book just came out. In its title, borrowed from one of Raymond...

March 19, 2013

Celebrating in the Desert

One thing I learned late, growing up in my evangelical Christian community, was the rhythm...

March 18, 2013

Theological Atomic Physicists and their Simplifiers

This is a cartoon that was circulated in grad school. I've seen it published a...

March 16, 2013

St. Patrick Comics & Stories!

The cartoon adventures of St. Patrick, from a 1947 comic book called Treasure Chest of...

March 15, 2013

Quoth Francis & Francis: Speak Up!

In his first mass as Roman pontiff, Pope Francis delivered a short sermon in the...

February 2013

February 26, 2013

Hebrews: The Mind-blowing Finale

The book of Hebrews is the grand finale of the first semester in the Torrey...

February 15, 2013

Pictographic Catechism from the Andes

It's not exactly a comic book, but there is an old catechism that certainly makes...

February 06, 2013

Evangelism with Dempfey and Theo

This is a gospel tract I designed, an evangelism tool. Well, it's not so much...

February 04, 2013

What Stephen Saw, We Hear

At the very beginning of the Christian church, before it was ever called "Christian" or...

February 02, 2013

Three Vintage Posts on Hebrews

As I launch into a semester of teaching Hebrews and a year of hearing it...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

Hebrews Out Loud

The book of Hebrews seems to have been written for the ear. Or, if that...

January 21, 2013

“Behold Your God!” LABTS Men’s Conference Saturday

This Saturday there's a great conference for men in Los Angeles. It's organized by the...